SWIMMING

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 December 1934, Page 2

SWIMMING

N.Z. ASSOCIATION MEETING.

[per press association.] CHRISTCHURCH, December 20.

A proposal to transfer £350 of its funds for use in the educating of children in swimming was approved at the meeting of the Council of the New Zealand Swimming Association tonight. A motion authorising the transfer will be submitted to the next meeting of the Council. A proposal to transfer £154 from the Overseas Tours Fund, was opposed, and was not adopted. It was agreed generally that little good came of sending New Zealand swimmers to the Olympic Games, but it was hdld that much good was done by visits of swimmers to New Zealand, and to finance such visits money should be held in tho fund. Negotiations for a visit of the French swimmers, Jean Taris and Emile Poussard, who are at present in Australia, are being made by the Council. It is proposed that their tour should last fifteen days. The French swimmers will be returnig home via New Zealand, and tlie ?dea is that they will tour New Zealand on their return home. . The men would arrive at Auckland on March 4 or March 9, and could leave for America by the Maunganui on March 19. The action which had been taken by the Committee in negotiating for a. tour was approved.

OTAGO CANDIDATES.

DUNEDIN, December 21

Otago swimmers for the New Zealand intermediate and junior cham? pionship at Timaru will be: G. Rix, 220 yards intermediate ladies’ freestyle S W. Jarvis, all intermediate boys’ events. J. Callander, 75 yards, intermediate boys’ breastroke. C. McGregor, all junior boys’ events. G. Chambers junior boys’ breast stroke. J. Thomson, junior girls’ 50 yards free-style. C. Knowlles, junior girls 50 yards breaststroke. C. Eckhold, intermediate boys’ dive. R. Jarvis, junior girls’ 100 yards and 50 free-style.

The cyclist, Gordon Lukey, .last night completed the ride from Auckland to Wellington, in 36 hours 19min., clipping 8 hours, 24 minutes off his September time for the 462 miles. Up till September, the fastest time was that of S. Wright, in the year 1929, just over 56 hours. Lukey lost over a stone in weight on this last trip, the weather being very hot and sunny.—Press Assn.

The Grey Hospital Board desires to acknowledge the following donations to the Christmas Cheer Fund: Chinese residents £7/14/-, Licensed' Victuallers’ Association (per Mr A. Beban) £5, anonymous £2/2/-; Kempthorne, Prosser and Co., .£l/1/-, R. McTaggart £l/1/-, R. and E. Tingey 10/6,. donations of goods from Messrs Griffen and Smith, P. Blanchfield and Sons, Riversdale Dairy Co., W. Boucher, and Boustridge - and Hall. ?